Amanuensis Monday - Rosiere School Photo

Clipping from the "Algoma Record-Herald", unknown date

"JOHN MURPHY was the teacher when this picture of the Rosiere school was taken about 1907 or 1908.

The picture originally belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Guilette and was provided the Record-Herald by the daughter, Mrs. Lewis (Hazel) Lemens.

Although not listed in rows, the following are among the pupils pictured:

Emil Kaye, Agnes Novak, Anna Tlachac, Emma Kaye, Xavier Naze, Leona LeDocq, John Hucek, Laura Cayemberg, Emil Dlorig, Frances Svoboda, Emily Kaye, Steve Tlachac, Frank Cayemberg, Martin Joseph Cayemberg, Henry Cayemberg, Lucy Cayemberg, Ella Cayemberg, Felix Cayemberg, Augusta Martin, Eddie Undlack, John LeCloux, Adele LeDocq, John Dlorig, Charles LeDocq, Fred Naze, Fred Charles, Henry DeVillers, John Hucek, Joe Tlachac, William Hucek, Josephine DeVillers, Philip DeVillers, Math Tlachac, Owen DeVillers, Harry DeVillers, Ida Wautlet, Madeline Wautlet, Bill Andre, Anna Cayemberg, Agnes Tlachac, Mayme DeVillers, Ella Andre, Alice Andre and Henry Vandermause.

The identification was provided Mrs. Lemes by some of these early Rosiere pupils."

So sad that it isn't by row!  It would be great to see all the Cayembergs.  I don't have pictures of all of them.  Lots of familiar names.  Names of family members and possible family members.  I've seen many of these names in funeral cards that I have, but haven't made connections with.  Seeing all these names helps to remind me that they may not all be related.  They may have been school friends as well.

Sunday's Obituary - Mrs. Nick Uelman

Unknown Wisconsin newspaper clipping

"Mrs. Nick Uelman [hand-dated Nov. 30, 1961]

Funeral services for Mrs. Nick Uelman, 76, West Bend, who died today at St. Joseph's hospital there, will be Monday at 9 a.m. at Millers Funeral home, Kewaskum, and at 9:30 a.m. at St. Michael's church at St. Michael.  The Rev. Matthew Urban will officiate.

Mrs. Uelman had been in ill health for six months.  She was born April 20, 1885, near St. Killian and lived there until 1921.  Between 1921 and 1958 she resided in the St. Michael area.  She moved to West Bend three and one-half years ago.

In 1908 she married Andrew Delling, who preceded her in death in 1915.  She married Nick Uelmen April 5, 1921, at St. Killian.

Surviving are her widower; one daughter, Mrs. Roman Boegel, Theresa; three step-children, Mrs. Herbert Donath, West Bend, Frank Uelman, West Bend, and Elroy Uelman, West Bend; 13 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Al Herriges, Wayne Center, and Mrs. Ben Wondra, Theresa.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday until the time of services."

Very odd that they don't mention her maiden name or parents in the obituary, but I suppose they may not have known (or felt it important).

NOTE:  Surname is spelled Uelman and Uelmen in this article.  I have seen several variations in different articles and memorial cards.

Facebook Friday - Reuniting Families on FB

Is there a Facebook Friday?  Well, there is today!

I was multitasking and a story popped up on my Facebook (click to read the story) newsfeed, posted from Facebook itself.  A wonderful story about a family that was reunited with cousins in Italy through the social networking site.

I would retell the entire tale here, but I wanted to share the link.  Ain't technology grand?

Family Recipe Friday - Bunny Buns

 

Since Easter is just around the corner, I figured I'd share a recipe that my mom used to make each Easter when my sisters and I were little kids.  It's from the "Better Homes & Gardens Holiday Cook Book".  I managed to get a copy of it on eBay and look forward to making some of the other breads and treats that my mom used to make each year!

These bunny buns are so yummy and my kids love them!  I've only ever made the twist bunnies, but perhaps I'll make the curlicue bunnies this year as well so I can get a picture!

Bunny Buns

1 pkg active dry yeast                                                                       

1 tsp salt

¼ c. warm water (110 – 115 degrees (F))                           

5 ½ c flour

1 c milk                                                                                                      

2 eggs, beaten

1/3 c. sugar                                                                                              

¼ c. orange juice

½ c. shortening                                                                                      

2 tbsp orange peel, grated

In a small bowl, soften the yeast in the warm water.  Heat together the milk, sugar, salt, and shortening until the shortening melts.  Cool to lukewarm (110 to 115 degrees (F)), then stir in 2 cups of the flour.  Beat well.  Add the eggs; mix well.  Stir in the yeast mixture.  Add the orange juice, peel, and enough of the remaining flour to make a soft dough.  Rest 10 minutes.

Knead dough 5 to 10 minutes.  cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled (about 2 hours).  Punch down.  Cover.  Let rest for 10 more minutes.

Shape into bunnies.  Place on a lightly greased cookie sheet.  Let bunnies rise in a warm place until almost doubled before baking.  Bake at 375 degrees (F) for 12 to 15 minutes.  Drizzle with a mixture of confectioners’ sugar and milk.  Makes about 20 bunnies.

TO FORM BUNNIES:

TWISTED BUNNIES:  For each, you’ll need a 14-inch strip of dough.  Wrap one end of the strip over the other to form a loop; now bring the end that’s underneath up over the top end, letting the tips extend to the side for ears.  Plat the tips of the eats to shape a point.  Roll a small ball of dough and place in the middle of the loop at the bottom of the bunny for the tail.

CURLICUE BUNNIES:  For each, you’ll need a 10-inch strip of dough for the body and a 5-inch strip for the head.  Make a loose swirl of the body strip.  Swirl the strip for the head and place close to the body (they’ll “grow” together as the dough rises).  For the ears, pinch off 1 ½ inch strips and roll between hands until smooth and cigar-shaped.  Let the point make the tip of the ear; snip off the opposite end and place the ear next to the head.  Pinch off a bit of dough and roll into a ball.  Place the ball next to the back-end of the bunny for the tail.

Wordless Wednesday - Coal Miner Tin Type Repair

Before

After

Another repair to an old tin type in my collection.  Doesn't look like too much work, but it was lots of little white dots to remove and an eye to repair.  The corners that were cut, well they aren't perfect.  You can tell that it's a repair when comparing it to the rocks in the corners of the first picture, but not too bad when see alone.

Need to dive into the instructions for my Serif Photo Plus X2 software again.  I figured out that I can adjust a portion of the photo by drawing a line separating where I want to adjust the image, but it only adjusts the bottom portion.  Sadly I was hoping to adjust the contrast to the TOP portion of the photo.  Oh well.  For now this is what I've got!

Tuesday's Tall Tales! - Discovering a Connection to a Basketball Legend, Part II

Excerpt from the 1930 US Census.  Charles Jr still at home with his widowed father and unmarried.

Hubie Brown.  Apparently he's a name that many basketball fans know.  I don't watch basketball.  It's a shame, I know...Final Four going on and all...a grandfather that was the basketball coach at the local Junior High...a baby sister that was a basketball phenom in elementary and middle school (very surprising considering she's shorter than me and I'm a giant 65-inches tall!), but when my cousin, gave me this article and told me that we were related to "The Great Hubie Brown", I kind of just looked at her and said, "Um, who?"  Of course, at that, my mom, who was sitting next to our cousin, just stared at me like she didn't recognize me as her own child...how could I not know who Hubie Brown was!?!

The article was still relatively new when my 2C1R, Nancy O'Donoghue nee Brown, handed it to me in the Knotty Pine restaurant in Hazleton, PA on our first meeting.  I had met Nancy online while researching and we realized we had a connection.  We promised to get together when I visited Pennsylvania next and we kept that promise, my mom, husband and child in tow.  Our genealogical relationship, while cut short by her death, was incredibly fruitful.  Researching a common surname is never easy and we made some excellent dents in our Hazleton "Brown" family.

We were never able to figure in how this Basketball Hall of Fame coach fit into our tree though.  It's not hard to do research on Hubie.  There's a lot out there, but when researching we need to make sure that we don't force a fit into our family tree for the sake of verifying a Tall Tale/Family Legend.  There was quite the write up on Hubie by Sports Illustrated back in 2007 so I started looking there.

The article verified that Hubie's parents were Charles Brown and Anna (no surname given, so perhaps the Hazleton, PA newspaper was correct with the "Brislin" surname), however according to Hubie and his wife he was an only child...I suppose the Hazleton Standard Speaker didn't only screw up on the section title to that article!  Actually, you can see that Charles had a sister name "Geneive" in the 1930 census.  Perhaps that is where the confusion lies!

There were only 3 Charles Browns in Hazleton, PA in the 1930 Census, and I've got two of them in my tree.  Charles Sr. is the son of Neal Brown Sr, my great-great grandfather.  Charles Sr married Annie Lugrand [sic] and had 9 children that I know of.  I've found them easily enough in the census records and Nancy's research had verified this.  Charles Jr is where Nancy and I assumed Hubie fit in, but we couldn't be sure.  We didn't have a wife listed for Charles Jr and as of the 1930 census, Charles, Jr was 28 and still living with a widowed Charles, Sr.  No marriage yet to Anna Brislin.

So do I just sit here and wait patiently for one more year until the 1940 census comes out to locate Hubie and verify that his Charles is my Charles Jr?  I don't have that kind of patience.  What I can do since I know that he was Catholic and was born in Hazleton, PA is contact my family church and request information on my Charles Jr since he would have most likely been married in there (Saint Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church).  I can also request a marriage certificate for Charles and Anna to find their parents' names, or look up some obits in the local newspaper when I return home during the summer, or request the New Jersey microfilm on interlibrary loan.  I'm not at a dead-end, I'm just swimming through mud right now.  Slow, but easy to stay afloat!

I suppose I could also simply write to Hubie Brown and ask if Neal Brown and Nancy McCoy are his ancestors.  From what I've read about him, he'd probably appreciate the brass it would take to send a letter like that to a stranger! While I've got the brass, it's not really my style.  I'll write if I find a link.  Not to say "hey" to a famous distant cousin.  Rather to ask..."So what about those ancestors of ours?  Got any intel for me?"  Now that's more my style.

So, have I busted this tall tale?  There's still work to do so we'll give it a Myth Buster's "Plausible" for the next few months.  Then we can change its status.  Right now though, To Be Continued...

Amanuensis Monday - Discovering a Connection to a Basketball Legend, Part I

Hazleton Standard-Speaker, 11MAY2004

 

"Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Commenrtary [sic]

Memphis coach Hubie Brown has local roots, Speaking of Sports [by] Ray Saul

When former Ebervale and Jeddo resident HUBIE BROWN was named head coach of the NBA Memphis Grizzlies by general manager JERRY WEST, the media types immediately pointed out that he would be the oldest coach in the league (he's now 70) and that he had been out of active coaching for 15 years.

All that aside, Brown last year took a franchise that perennially lost more than 50 games a season, including 60 or more four times, and quickly began to turn it around.

This season, under Brown, the Grizzlies finished 50-32 and made the NBA playoffs for the first time ever.  Vancouver was granted a franchise in 1995-96 and the club moved to Memphis in 2001-02 and retained the nickname.  The Grizzlies lost to the San Antonio Spurs in four straight, but won more games by far than any other Grizzly team.

In past years, Brown coached on the high school and college levels.  He coached the New York Knicks to the NBA playoffs twice and the Atlanta Hawks three times.

Brown's parents were CHARLES BROWN and ANNA BRISLIN BROWN.  The family moved to Elizabeth, N.J., when Charles found a job there.  Hubie lettered in basketball at Niagara and played with the Hazleton Hawks in the Eastern Pro League. 

His sister Genevieve married JOHN HOOPER.  Daughter CAROL (HOOPER) lives in Hazleton and her brother, JOHN HOOPER, lives in Cape Cod and Florida.  Several cousins also live in the Hazleton area.

Because of the success of the team, the Grizzlies had an average attendance of 15,188 this season."

Absolutely love the misspelling of "commentary"!  In an article that is supposed to bring "fame" to a small town, the small town screws up the section title!  So very Hazleton!

So what's the connection?  Is there a connection or is this another family tall-tale?  Let's see what tomorrow's "Tuesday's Tale Tales" brings!